This date in history

[Mr Quatro]

So much for cease fires that must have cost at least ten percent of the 58,000 American lives that were lost.

the last American troops departed Vietnam on March 29,1973 ... the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed

[Jimbuna]

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam.

1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.

1942 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die.

1945 Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years.

1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang.

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1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre.

1939 Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph.

1939 First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway military aircraft.

1944 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg.

1945 A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.

1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, three others are also wounded.

1984 World's most valuable tip - New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of $1 lottery ticket, next day they win $6 million.

[Jimbuna]

1889 Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris. Built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300m high it retains the record for the tallest man made structure for 41 years.

1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany.

1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen.

1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea.

1954 USSR offers to join NATO.

1958 US Navy forms atomic submarine division.

1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same.

1972 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy.

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1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die.

1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government.

1918 United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps.

1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted.

1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany.

1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.

1945 The Ruhr Pocket of German forces are encircled by the US Ninth Army and US First Army, eventually leading to the capture of 317,000 German troops.

1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations.

1973 John Lennon and Yoko Ono form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence.

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California.

1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned.

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1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen.

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.

1917 US President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany.

1942 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco.

1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain.

2005 Newcastle United team mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer are sent off for fighting each other in a 3-0 home defeat to EPL rivals Aston Villa at St. James’ Park.

[Jimbuna]

1882 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph.

1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent.

1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz.

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1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford.

1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

[Jimbuna]

1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

1943 Allies bomb Mortsel, Belgium's worse loss of life during WWII (936 civilians)

1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat.

1982 Aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes with escort vessels left Portsmouth for the Falkland Islands.

1992 Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare.

[Aktungbby]

1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

WHEN I BAILIFFED THE SOCIAL SECURITY COURT AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: '98-'03, OUR OFFICE FACILITIES MANAGER WAS FROM GERMANY. A CHARMING DEDICATED EMPLOYEE WITH FOUR COURTROOMS AND NINETY PEOPLE UNDER HER EFFICIENT VIGIL; SHE HAD BEEN A YOUTH FOF HITLER...WE DUBBED HER 'THE RESIDENT NAZI'....FORTUNATELY SHE HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR AS WELL!

[Aktungbby]

1862: the massive three-day battle of Shiloh begins in Tennessee as Confederate forces launch a surprise attack on camped Union forces. Relatively unknown generals Ulysses S. Grant and Wm. Tecumseh Sherman manage to stave off disaster. The horrific casualties will shock the nation as both sides realise: a long bloody war lies ahead...STILL PLAYED BY ME WITH VARIOUS NEPHEWS

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1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare.

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain, France, overrun by Nazis.

1945 The Holocaust: Nazis begin evacuating prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island.

1974 19th Eurovision Song Contest: ABBA for Sweden wins singing "Waterloo" in Brighton.

1994 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records.

2012 US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities.

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1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa.

1944 World War II: General Montgomery speaks to generals at St. Paul's School about his vision for the upcoming D-Day landings.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island.

1945 Sonderkommando Elbe, special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air, are sent on their first and only mission of World War II.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk.

1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops).

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1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection.

1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die.

1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle.

1942 Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan.

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen.

1981 US submarine George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru.

2002 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets.

[Aktungbby]

1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen.

WELL, MOMMY WAS AN AMERICAN AFTER ALL! A TRUE 'HOTTIE'> < BUT THEN I'M A LITTLE BIASED....WE'RE BOTH ORIGINALLY FROM BROOKLYN N.Y.